Auto-schedule

Auto-schedule takes the tasks you already have and produces a seven-day plan of blocks: what to do, when, and for how long. It is deterministic rather than a guess, so the same tasks and the same constraints produce the same plan, and you can see why a block landed where it did. It respects your working hours, a daily ceiling on deep work and a separate ceiling on administrative work, and an energy mode that says whether your best thinking happens in the morning, in the afternoon, or wherever it fits. When the week goes wrong it can reflow the work you missed, show you the change before you take it, and revert it afterwards.

• A seven-day grid of blocks built from your real tasks, not a template
• Deterministic planning: the same inputs give the same plan, so a block can always be explained
• Energy mode: deep work in the morning, in the afternoon, or wherever it fits
• Separate daily ceilings for deep work and for administrative work, from fifteen minutes to eight hours
• Missed work reflow, with a preview of exactly what would change before you accept it, and a revert afterwards

• Planning does not move anything on its own. It produces a proposal, and applying it is a separate decision you make.
• Anything applied can be reverted. The history of what was reflowed is kept so a change is never one way.
• The plan is built from tasks with enough information to schedule. A task with no estimate cannot be given a block of the right size.
• Deep and administrative ceilings are daily, and a plan will leave work unscheduled rather than exceed them. Unscheduled work is a signal that the week is overcommitted.

1. 1Open Auto-schedule and set your working hours, your daily ceilings and your energy mode.
2. 2Generate a plan. The seven-day grid fills with blocks tagged by the kind of work each one holds.
3. 3Read what did not fit. That is the honest part of the plan and the reason to change something.
4. 4Apply the plan when it looks right, or adjust a constraint and generate it again.
5. 5If the week slips, preview a reflow of the missed work, accept it if the change is one you want, and revert it if it is not.

Will it move my calendar without asking?

No. Planning produces a proposal. Applying it is a separate action, and anything applied can be reverted from the history.

Why is some of my work not scheduled?

Because it did not fit inside your working hours and your daily ceilings. That is the plan telling you the week is overcommitted rather than quietly running past your limits.

Is the plan the same if I generate it twice?

Yes, for the same tasks and constraints. The planner is deterministic on purpose, so a block can be explained rather than attributed to a model.

What does energy mode change?

Where the demanding work goes. Morning deep puts it early, afternoon deep puts it late, and flexible lets it fall wherever the constraints allow.

What happens when I miss a day?

Preview a reflow. Atlas shows exactly which blocks would move before anything changes, and the change can be reverted afterwards.